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BRUSH. I No. 898,043. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.

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N. PETERS, FhnlO-Lilhngnpher. Washington, D. C.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,043, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed July 16, l888. Serial No. 280,1}5. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARVEY W. I-IAsoY,'of

- the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invent-ed a new and usef ul Improvement in Brushes for Painting and other Purposes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to that class of paintbrushes or other brushes made of bristles attached to a head or handle, usually made of wood, in which a cap or disk surrounding the handle covers the tops orbutts of the bristles and prevents them from working back, and thereby becoming loose.

The bristles used in brushes are largest at their butts or rootsor butt-ends,.and consequently if a quantity of bristles were placed with their butt-ends or roots side by side the body of bristles thus formed would, if com= pressed as much as possible, be wider or larger at the top, or where the butt-ends come together, than anywhere else, and when in a brush of the class to which my invention relates the bristles are secured with their butt 1 ends or roots all arranged side by side against the under face of a cap or disk surrounding the handle or head, and said under face is fiat or unbroken, the bristles must be compressed into a smaller area at a distance below the said under face than at the said face where the butts come together, otherwise the bristles will be liable to work loose and become severally detached from the brush.

The object of my invention is to avoid the above-mentioned difficulties; and to that end my invention consists of the combination, in a brush with the handle or head and the bristles attached thereto, of a cap, disk, or filler, against which the bristles abut, surrounding the handle or head, and having a multiplicity of recesses in its under face for receiving the butts of a part of said bristles.

. In thedrawings, Figure 1 represents a side View, part section, of a brush embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a top view or plan of the same brush; Fig. 3, an under side view of a cap or disk, and Figs. 4 and 5 modifications of the under face of the cap or disk.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates a head or handle to which the bristles '13 are attached; C, a cap or disk, against which the bristles abut, surrounding the handle or head A and having a multiplicity of recesses, a, in its under face for receiving the butts of a part of said bristles.

The head or handle A may have any form suitable for this class of brushes and be made of any suitable material, as of wood. In the example given in the drawings the brush is flat with rounded edges. The cap or disk C, sometimes called the tiller, may be made of any suitable material that is impervious to the liquor in which the brush is to be used. A composition consisting of rosin, alum, and sawdust is commonly employed. The bristles B are laid around the head or handle A in the usual manner, with their but trends upward and abutting against-the under face of the cap or disk 0.

D designates a band surrounding the cap, disk, or filler O and the upper end of the bristles. It may be tackedto the filler or secured by bending over or in any suitable manner. In the drawings it is represented as having its upper edge bent over the top of the filler or cap.

I) b are tacks or nails driven through the band 1), cap, disk, or filler G, and bristles B into the head or handle A. The parts about the fastenings may be permeated with shellac to strengthen the brush andrender it impervious to oil or turpentine or other ingredients contained in paint.

WVere the under face of the cap 0 plane and unbroken with all the butts of the bristles resting against it, the band D would have but a narrow effective bearing upon the bristles immediately below the under face of the disk 0, and the bristles would work loose and fall out, and the brush would be thereby rapidly destroyed. To avoid such a result, I provide the under face of cap 0 with a multiplicity of recesses, a, into which a large part,

which may be one-half of the butts of all the bristles, are inserted, thereby locating the butts of the said large part of the butts above the plane of the butts of the remaining part and affording a broad surface for the band D to press upon the bristles, and obviating the necessity of contracting the crosssectional area of the body of bristles below the butts to secure them to the handle.

The recesses in the under face of cap C should be deep enough to receive the roots or butts of the brisfles, so that only the body of the bristles which enter the recesses will be between the butts of those which do not. The recesses may have any convenient form, as that ot simple round holes sunk in the face of. the cap in regular or irregular order, as

The combination, in a ln'uslnwith the hundle or head and the bristles attached thereto, of a cap, disk, or filler, against which thebris iles abut, surrounding the handle or head, and

having a multiplicity of recesses in its under 20 faee for receiving the butts oi. a part of said bristles, substantially as specified, and for the purpose set forth.

represented in Fig. 2, and the holes may be countersunk, or the face may be corrugated, E as represented in 4; and :3, to prevent the lodg'ment of the ends of bristles on the edges of the holes or recesses.

Whatl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pa tent, is

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